The abduction of Persephone by Hades is depicted on the shoulder of this hydria. Hades has already grabbed Persephone and is taking her to the Underworld with his chariot, led by four white horses (quadriga). Persephone wears rich clothes, jewels, and a diadem on her head. She lifts her garment with her left hand. Her stance and clothes indicate her marriage to Hades. The winged Eros flies above them, holding a thymiaterion (censer) and a pinakion (plate). Hermes Nymphagogos (leader of the bride) is ahead of the chariot, with his attributes (chlamys, petasos, winged sandals, and caduceus). He leads them to the Underworld. The goddess Hekate (goddess of fertility, magic, and dark things) follows behind the chariot, lighting their way with a torch. Two women, each holding a hydria, appear to the right and left of the scene. They are probably the Danaids, the daughters of the king Danaus, who were condemned in the Underworld to endlessly pour water from hydriae into a pythos with a leak, to atone for killing their husband-cousins on their wedding night. On the belly of the vase, bellow, is a scene from the gynaikonitis (women's quarter, room of the house related to the women and their world).